As Grendel says, plotting waypoints can be useful over small or larger areas. I have been using the Freeware program, GPS Utility (www.gpsu.co.uk/) for plotting GPS positions of rock art over a 1:10 000 bit map. It's a useful and accurate mapping tool and I can recommend it. I haven't connected up the GPS to the PC though yet. The Freeware version is limited in some print functions, a maximum of 100 waypoints and one bitmap per data file. The Shareware version costs £30 and allows storage and display of thousands of waypoints. Sorry, I can't post an example or the copyright people at the OS might complain.

>> I need to make an eBay purchase of the GPS download cable then I'm well away.

I have actually, finally just done that very thing. I'm sick of sitting there pushing squidgey little buttons to enter a grid ref and then having to transfer to my web pages by hand.

Hopefully I will be able to automate some of that now :-) It may even encourage me to start making waypoints available. I do have the functionality for people to tag pages and then generate a route list already behind the scenes at megalithomania and I may now make it accessible to everyone. I just have to check that it works properly first, because I wrote it yonks ago.